3D printer will build your house in a day

A revolutionary new 3D printer developed can print a 200 square metre home in a mere 24 hours.

That’s the claim by the scientists who created the gizmo, at the University of Southern California, who say the cutting edge device can build a whole house, layer by layer, in a day.

‘Contour Crafting’ is a layered fabrication technology – meaning it produces a large scale structure quickly, piece by piece, in the shape of a pre-set pattern or template. Computer controlled arms and nozzles move back and forth to ‘build’ the structure.

Conduits and fittings could also be embedded in the construction, further speeding up the process.

Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis, the brains behind the innovation, says he hopes the technology will be used to create efficient and cost effective emergency, low-income, commercial or residential property.

“This technology is like a rock that we have rolled to the top of a cliff,” Khoshnevis told Discover Magazine, “just one little push and the idea will roll along on its own.”

This type of technology suggests our property futures might be very interesting indeed. Imagine being able to customise and press ‘print’ on your one-of-a-kind home. Or being able to build new offices at the drop of a hat if your business is growing.

Custom design and mass production might make for a fascinating housing future

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And 3D printed houses might not be confined to our humble planet Earth.

“Our research also addresses the application of Contour Crafting in building habitats on other planets,” say the researchers said on the project website.

“Contour Crafting will most probably be one of the very few feasible approaches for building structures on other planets, such as the Moon and Mars, which are being targeted for human colonisation before the end of the new century.”

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